New Rules from Football Canada – Tackles

A number of changes, clarifications and corrections were approved to the Canadian Amateur Tackle Football Rule Book. The changes are for immediate distribution and implementation. They will be added to the next printed edition of the rule book in May 2018.

The changes include:

Uniform numbers must be easy to identify

o Teams have until 2020 to fully comply

Clarification to overtime procedures

Clarification to deliberate time count violations

Clarification for times when the whistle is blown inadvertently

Clarification to the interpretation of intentional grounding

Clarification to balancing dual penalties, where one of the penalties is non-restricted (e.g. pass interference, unnecessary roughness)